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Red Earth and Pouring Rain
Vikram Chandra
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Description for Red Earth and Pouring Rain
Paperback. A tale of nineteenth-century India - of Sanjay, a poet, and Sikander, a warrior; of hoofbeats thundering through the streets of Calcutta; of great wars and love affairs and a city gone mad with poetry. Woven into it are the adventures of a young Indian criss-crossing America in a car with his friends. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 39. Weight in Grams: 484.
An epic tale of nineteenth-century India - of Sanjay, a poet, and Sikander, a warrior; of hoofbeats thundering through the streets of Calcutta; of great wars and love affairs and a city gone mad with poetry. Woven into it are the adventures of a young Indian criss-crossing America in a car with his friends.
'A dazzling first novel . . . Not merely drawing on myth but making it.' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Sunday Times
'Marvellous and compelling.' Charles Palliser
'A brilliant novel of wondrous conjuring and stunning import.' John Hawkes
'One of the finest Indian novels of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571234493
SKU
V9780571234493
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-21
About Vikram Chandra
Vikram Chandra was born in New Delhi. His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain (1995) won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book and the David Higham Prize. Love and Longing in Bombay was first published in 1997 and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Eurasia region) and was short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize. He ... Read more
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